<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;  His form was bent, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18629]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;  His form was bent, and his gait was slow,   His long thin hair was white as snow,    But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye.     And he sang every night as he went to bed,      "Let us be happy down here below:       The living should live, though the dead be dead."        Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for a camel To thread the postern of a small needle's eye. -King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55830]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for a camel To thread the postern of a small needle's eye. -King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12185]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46278]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two are as near one another as extreme wisdom and folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2427]]></link><description><![CDATA[We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There, right in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There, right in the middle of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder that medicine is not food. Hence a man's reaction to Monarchy is a kind of test. Monarchy can easily be "debunked"; but watch the faces, mark well the accents, of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach -- men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire mere equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way ofpeace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21149]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way ofpeace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred withlove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of those guys were supposed to come over here with him and I think that's one of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41380]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of those guys were supposed to come over here with him and I think that's one of the reasons he doesn't want to come. It would remind him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft Machine were going more in the direction of fusion jazz and I didn't like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft Machine were going more in the direction of fusion jazz and I didn't like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The education of the will is the object of our existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The education of the will is the object of our existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10843]]></link><description><![CDATA[In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were afraid that Holocaust survivors would not like the idea of the play, but I think that the Israeli ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were afraid that Holocaust survivors would not like the idea of the play, but I think that the Israeli audience is more mature today than it was 30 years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices were different in the past. They have been changed to be consistent for all summer sessions. This should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices were different in the past. They have been changed to be consistent for all summer sessions. This should be easier and more convenient for students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18749]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11097]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is the grave of letters ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is the grave of letters]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5002]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13071]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with love forever,   And love is the sweetest thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;  But that's all one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51530]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;  But that's all one, our play is done,   And we'll strive to please you every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had to defend themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41538]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had to defend themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49012]]></link><description><![CDATA[A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine.Yet always when I look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine.Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Paul, using the examples of differing opinions about food and days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Paul, using the examples of differing opinions about food and days among the believers in Rome, teaches that Christians should not despise or judge others. He does not advise them to find a happy medium between the contending opinions or to average the two extremes in a compromise. On the contrary, he admonished them that "every one be fully convinced in his own mind" (Rom. 14:5), because God is able to make both stand, as both of them are serving the Lord in obedience to their individual convictions of His will... Each of us has to find personally what is the will of God for his own life, and let all others meet their responsibility to do the same... For God, by giving different commands to many, and putting them together according to His plan, shall accomplish ultimately His complete will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw the bags and I said to myself that somebody is dumping trash here. Then I saw what was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw the bags and I said to myself that somebody is dumping trash here. Then I saw what was inside. I saw the deer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest,  Lend less than thou owest,   Ride more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest,  Lend less than thou owest,   Ride more than thou goest,    Learn more than thou trowest,     Set less than thou throwest;      Leave thy drink and thy whore,       And keep in-a-door,        And thou shalt have more         Than two tens to a score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11551]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Unix is so damned useful, why is "no" in /usr/dict/words, but "yes" isn't? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Unix is so damned useful, why is "no" in /usr/dict/words, but "yes" isn't?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs coming into the series and now we are 1-0 up in the final. We believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs coming into the series and now we are 1-0 up in the final. We believe in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science does not know its debt to imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science does not know its debt to imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That does not stop people in those relationships from going through legal means of getting for instance, health care power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39291]]></link><description><![CDATA[That does not stop people in those relationships from going through legal means of getting for instance, health care power of attorney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52366]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39147]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This survey highlights the importance that brands play within many aspects of our lives, and reveals some interesting trends, such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28984]]></link><description><![CDATA[This survey highlights the importance that brands play within many aspects of our lives, and reveals some interesting trends, such as the dominance of technology and Internet-based brands. Companies that take a proactive approach to managing their brands are in a much better position to earn respect from their customers, as exemplified by the top-ranked brands on the list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay into a better world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24838]]></link><description><![CDATA[They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24838</guid></item></channel></rss>